Child Abuse

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 12-year prospective study of the long-term effects of early child physical maltreatment on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems in adolescence. 
  • A Pilot Study of Neurocognitive Function and Brain Structures in Adolescents With Alcohol Use Disorders: Does Maltreatment History Matter? 
  • A combined motivation and parent-child interaction therapy package reduces child welfare recidivism in a randomized dismantling field trial. 
  • A comparative effectiveness review of parenting and trauma-focused interventions for children exposed to maltreatment. 
  • A cross-sectional exploratory study of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of emergency health care providers in the assessment of child maltreatment in Maputo, Mozambique. 
  • A motivational intervention can improve retention in PCIT for low-motivation child welfare clients. 
  • A pilot longitudinal study of hippocampal volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • A reasonably large review of operationalization in child maltreatment research: Assessment approaches and sources of information in youth samples. 
  • A risk calculator to predict adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: generation and external validation in three birth cohorts and one clinical sample. 
  • A statewide nurse training program for a hospital based infant abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • A.E. Bennett Research Award. Developmental traumatology. Part I: Biological stress systems. 
  • A.E. Bennett Research Award. Developmental traumatology. Part II: Brain development. 
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Blood Pressure in Women in the United States: A Systematic Review. 
  • Adverse behavioral and emotional outcomes from child abuse and witnessed violence. 
  • Adverse childhood events are associated with obesity and disordered eating: results from a U.S. population-based survey of young adults. 
  • Adverse childhood experiences and adult risk factors for age-related disease: depression, inflammation, and clustering of metabolic risk markers. 
  • Agreement Between Prospective and Retrospective Measures of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. 
  • Alpha EEG asymmetry, childhood maltreatment, and problem behaviors: A pilot home-based study. 
  • Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex Volumes Differ in Maltreated Youth with and without Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. 
  • An ecological-transactional model of significant risk factors for child psychopathology in outer mongolia. 
  • An examination of sex differences on neurocognitive functioning and behavior problems in maltreated youth. 
  • Analysis of DNA Methylation in Young People: Limited Evidence for an Association Between Victimization Stress and Epigenetic Variation in Blood. 
  • Annotation: implications of violence between intimate partners for child psychologists and psychiatrists. 
  • Anterior cingulate N-acetylaspartate/creatine ratios during clonidine treatment in a maltreated child with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Association between socioeconomic status and risk of hospitalization due to child maltreatment in the USA. 
  • Association of DHEA, DHEAS, and cortisol with childhood trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Associations of parental personality disorders and axis I disorders with childrearing behavior. 
  • At the Front Lines: Effectively Training Community Stakeholders to Recognize and Report Child Abuse and Neglect. 
  • Attitudes justifying domestic violence predict endorsement of corporal punishment and physical and psychological aggression towards children: a study in 25 low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Barriers to reporting child maltreatment: do emergency medical services professionals fully understand their role as mandatory reporters? 
  • Best practices for mental health in child welfare: parent support and youth empowerment guidelines. 
  • Best practices for mental health in child welfare: screening, assessment, and treatment guidelines. 
  • Binge and purge behavior among adolescents: associations with sexual and physical abuse in a nationally representative sample: the Commonwealth Fund survey. 
  • Biologic findings of post-traumatic stress disorder and child maltreatment. 
  • Biological correlates of abuse in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and healthy controls. 
  • Blunted Ventral Striatum Development in Adolescence Reflects Emotional Neglect and Predicts Depressive Symptoms. 
  • Blunted cortisol responses to stress signal social and behavioral problems among maltreated/bullied 12-year-old children. 
  • Brain structural covariance network centrality in maltreated youth with PTSD and in maltreated youth resilient to PTSD. 
  • Brain structures in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder: a sociodemographically matched study. 
  • Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study 
  • Caseworker assessments of risk for recurrent maltreatment: association with case-specific risk factors and re-reports. 
  • Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina. What is it? And why? 
  • Cerebellar volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Child abuse: a multidimensional phenomenon. 
  • Child and adult victimization: sequelae for female caregivers of high-risk children. 
  • Child-, adolescent- and young adult-onset depressions: differential risk factors in development? 
  • Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE): An evidence-informed program for children with a history of trauma and other behavioral challenges. 
  • Childhood Bullying Victimization and Overweight in Young Adulthood: A Cohort Study. 
  • Childhood abuse and neglect and transitions in stages of alcohol involvement among women: a latent transition analysis approach. 
  • Childhood abuse and treatment response in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: a post-hoc analysis of a 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of paroxetine controlled release. 
  • Childhood maltreatment and poor functional outcomes at the transition to adulthood: a comparison of prospective informant- and retrospective self-reports of maltreatment. 
  • Childhood maltreatment, juvenile disorders and adult post-traumatic stress disorder: a prospective investigation. 
  • Childhood sexual and physical abuse and the 1-year prevalence of medical problems in the National Comorbidity Survey. 
  • Childhood trauma and children's emerging psychotic symptoms: A genetically sensitive longitudinal cohort study. 
  • Childhood trauma and diurnal cortisol disruption in fibromyalgia syndrome. 
  • Childhood trauma exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans: implications for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and adult functional social support. 
  • Childhood victimization and inflammation in young adulthood: A genetically sensitive cohort study. 
  • Chronic pain in adults with a history of childhood sexual abuse. 
  • Clinical Considerations Related to the Behavioral Manifestations of Child Maltreatment. 
  • Cognitive-behavioral treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents. 
  • Complex PTSD in victims exposed to sexual and physical abuse: results from the DSM-IV Field Trial for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. 
  • Complex trauma and mental health in children and adolescents placed in foster care: findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. 
  • Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. 
  • Contribution of family violence to the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior. 
  • Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood project. 
  • Creating community responsibility for child protection: possibilities and challenges. 
  • Cross-cultural gene- environment interactions in depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the cortisol awakening response: FKBP5 polymorphisms and childhood trauma in South Asia. 
  • Cumulative Rates of Child Protection Involvement and Terminations of Parental Rights in a California Birth Cohort, 1999-2017. 
  • Demographic, maltreatment, and neurobiological correlates of PTSD symptoms in children and adolescents. 
  • Depression in Maltreated Children and Adolescents. 
  • Depression, Stressful Life Events, and the Impact of Variation in the Serotonin Transporter: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). 
  • Development of a criteria set and a structured interview for disorders of extreme stress (SIDES). 
  • Developmental trajectories of externalizing and internalizing behaviors: factors underlying resilience in physically abused children. 
  • Developmental traumatology: the psychobiological development of maltreated children and its implications for research, treatment, and policy. 
  • Developmentally adapted cognitive processing therapy for adolescents suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual or physical abuse: a pilot study. 
  • Disordered eating among adolescents: associations with sexual/physical abuse and other familial/psychosocial factors. 
  • Does Childhood Trauma Moderate Polygenic Risk for Depression? A Meta-analysis of 5765 Subjects From the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. 
  • Does childhood bullying predict eating disorder symptoms? A prospective, longitudinal analysis. 
  • Does physical abuse in early childhood predict substance use in adolescence and early adulthood? 
  • Domestic violence in neurologic practice. 
  • Domestic violence is associated with environmental suppression of IQ in young children. 
  • Drug use and childhood-, military- and post-military trauma exposure among women and men veterans. 
  • Early Adolescents' Unique Perspectives of Maternal and Paternal Rejection: Examining Their Across-Dyad Generalizability and Relations with Adjustment 1 Year Later. 
  • Early Physical Abuse and Adult Outcomes. 
  • Early physical abuse and later violent delinquency: a prospective longitudinal study. 
  • Effect of a Community Agency-Administered Nurse Home Visitation Program on Program Use and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of a paraprofessional home-visiting intervention on American Indian teen mothers’ and infants’ behavioral risks: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effectively addressing the impact of child traumatic stress in child welfare. 
  • Effectiveness of a Statewide Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program in North Carolina. 
  • Effects of a cognitive adjustment program for Thai parents. 
  • Effects of the child-perpetrator relationship on mental health outcomes of child abuse: it's (not) all relative. 
  • Elevated inflammation levels in depressed adults with a history of childhood maltreatment. 
  • Epidemiology of child traumatic stress. 
  • Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events. 
  • Examination of a conceptual model of child neglect. 
  • Examining pregnant women's hostile attributions about infants as a predictor of offspring maltreatment. 
  • Exploration of the influence of childhood trauma, combat exposure, and the resilience construct on depression and suicidal ideation among U.S. Iraq/Afghanistan era military personnel and veterans. 
  • FKBP5 and emotional neglect interact to predict individual differences in amygdala reactivity. 
  • Factors related to posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescence. 
  • Familial influence and childhood trauma in female alcoholism. 
  • Family risk as a predictor of initial engagement and follow-through in a universal nurse home visiting program to prevent child maltreatment. 
  • Friendship as a moderating factor in the pathway between early harsh home environment and later victimization in the peer group. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • From concept to application: the impact of a community-wide intervention to improve the delivery of preventive services to children. 
  • Generalized anxiety disorder and depression: childhood risk factors in a birth cohort followed to age 32. 
  • Harsh Parenting in Relation to Child Emotion Regulation and Aggression 
  • Helping battered women take care of their children. 
  • History of early abuse as a predictor of treatment response in patients with fibromyalgia: a post-hoc analysis of a 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of paroxetine controlled release. 
  • Hospital based emergency department visits attributed to child physical abuse in United States: predictors of in-hospital mortality. 
  • How does family drug treatment court participation affect child welfare outcomes? 
  • Hypochondriacal patients' beliefs about good health. 
  • Impact of childhood trauma on treatment outcome in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). 
  • Impact of race on early treatment termination and outcomes in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment. 
  • Improving parenting in families referred for child maltreatment: a randomized controlled trial examining effects of Project Support. 
  • Individual, family, and culture level contributions to child physical abuse and neglect: A longitudinal study in nine countries. 
  • Individual, family, and neighborhood factors distinguish resilient from non-resilient maltreated children: a cumulative stressors model. 
  • Influence of life stress on depression: moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene. 
  • Integration of the Nurse Practitioner Into Your Child Abuse Team. 
  • Intergenerational continuity in child maltreatment: mediating mechanisms and implications for prevention. 
  • Interpersonal trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with severe mental illness: demographic, clinical, and health correlates. 
  • Interpersonal trauma, war zone exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder among veterans with schizophrenia. 
  • Intersection of child abuse and children's exposure to domestic violence. 
  • Intimate partner violence and new-onset depression: a longitudinal study of women's childhood and adult histories of abuse. 
  • Investigating patterns of neural response associated with childhood abuse v. childhood neglect. 
  • Invisible children. 
  • Is childhood cruelty to animals a marker for physical maltreatment in a prospective cohort study of children? 
  • Kinship Care and Foster Care: A Comparison of Out-of-Home Placement From the Perspective of Child Abuse Experts in North Carolina. 
  • Leptin deficiency in maltreated children 
  • Leveraging parent-child interaction therapy and telehealth capacities to address the unique needs of young children during the COVID-19 public health crisis. 
  • Lifetime sexual and physical victimization among male veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Longitudinal Assessment of Self-Harm Statements of Youth in Foster Care: Rates, Reporters, and Related Factors. 
  • Lower structural integrity of the uncinate fasciculus is associated with a history of child maltreatment and future psychological vulnerability to stress. 
  • MAOA genotype, childhood maltreatment, and their interaction in the etiology of adult antisocial behaviors. 
  • MAOA, maltreatment, and gene-environment interaction predicting children's mental health: new evidence and a meta-analysis. 
  • Maltreatment history and weapon carrying among early adolescents. 
  • Maltreatment type, exposure characteristics, and mental health outcomes among clinic referred trauma-exposed youth. 
  • Maternal depression in the intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment and its sequelae: Testing postpartum effects in a longitudinal birth cohort. 
  • Measuring adolescents' exposure to victimization: The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study. 
  • Measuring childhood maltreatment to predict early-adult psychopathology: Comparison of prospective informant-reports and retrospective self-reports. 
  • Measuring the severity of child maltreatment. 
  • Mechanisms in the cycle of violence. 
  • Mental health need and access to mental health services by youths involved with child welfare: a national survey. 
  • Mineralocorticoid receptor Iso/Val (rs5522) genotype moderates the association between previous childhood emotional neglect and amygdala reactivity. 
  • Mitigating the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response on At-Risk Children. 
  • Modification of depression by COMT val158met polymorphism in children exposed to early severe psychosocial deprivation. 
  • Multi-system responses in the context of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. 
  • Munchausen syndrome by proxy presenting as factitious apnea. 
  • N-Acetylaspartate concentration in the anterior cingulate of maltreated children and adolescents with PTSD. 
  • Nature X nurture: genetic vulnerabilities interact with physical maltreatment to promote conduct problems. 
  • Network analysis of exposure to trauma and childhood adversities in a clinical sample of youth. 
  • Neural correlates of cognitive and affective processing in maltreated youth with posttraumatic stress symptoms: does gender matter? 
  • Neural substrates for processing task-irrelevant emotional distracters in maltreated adolescents with depressive disorders: a pilot study. 
  • Neuropsychological findings in childhood neglect and their relationships to pediatric PTSD. 
  • Neuropsychological findings in pediatric maltreatment: relationship of PTSD, dissociative symptoms, and abuse/neglect indices to neurocognitive outcomes. 
  • Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Nurses' knowledge of child abuse and nurses' attitudes toward parental participation in the abused child's care. 
  • Outcomes of child abuse. 
  • Parent training with behavioral couples therapy for fathers' alcohol abuse: effects on substance use, parental relationship, parenting, and CPS involvement. 
  • Parental Criminal Justice Involvement and Children's Involvement With Child Protective Services: Do Adult Drug Treatment Courts Prevent Child Maltreatment? 
  • Parental agreement of reporting parent to child aggression using the Conflict Tactics Scales 
  • Parental arrest and children involved with child welfare services agencies. 
  • Patterns of maltreatment and diagnosis across levels of care in group homes. 
  • Pediatric residency training in child abuse and neglect in the United States. 
  • Penile and scrotal swelling mimicking child abuse. 
  • People who expect to enter psychotherapy are prone to believing that they have forgotten memories of childhood trauma and abuse. 
  • Phenolphthalein laxatives and factitious diarrhea. 
  • Physical maltreatment victim to antisocial child: evidence of an environmentally mediated process. 
  • Pituitary volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Posterior structural brain volumes differ in maltreated youth with and without chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Posttraumatic stress symptoms in children and adolescents referred for child welfare investigation. A national sample of in-home and out-of-home care. 
  • Predicting Persistent, Limited, and Delayed Problematic Cannabis Use in Early Adulthood: Findings From a Longitudinal Study. 
  • Predictors of treatment completion in a sample of youth who have experienced physical or sexual trauma. 
  • Prevalence and Incidence of Traumatic Experiences Among Orphans in Institutional and Family-Based Settings in 5 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Longitudinal Study. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of physical and emotional abuse among late adolescents. 
  • Prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and physical trauma in an HIV-positive sample from the deep south. 
  • Prevalence of childhood trauma and its association with lower urinary tract symptoms in women and men in the LURN study. 
  • Preventing early child maltreatment: implications from a longitudinal study of maternal abuse history, substance use problems, and offspring victimization. 
  • Prior interpersonal trauma: the contribution to current PTSD symptoms in female rape victims. 
  • Process evaluation of a statewide abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • Protective effect of CRHR1 gene variants on the development of adult depression following childhood maltreatment: replication and extension. 
  • Psychiatric co-morbidity in caregivers and children involved in maltreatment: a pilot research study with policy implications. 
  • Psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents in foster care: review of research literature. 
  • Recent victimization in women and men with severe mental illness: prevalence and correlates. 
  • Relations among relationships. 
  • Relationships Between Maltreatment, Posttraumatic Symptomatology, and the Dissociative Subtype of PTSD Among Adolescents. 
  • Risk and protection in the perpetration of child abuse. 
  • Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children. 
  • SAFE Homes: is it worth the cost? An evaluation of a group home permanency planning program for children who first enter out-of-home care. 
  • Safe, stable, nurturing relationships break the intergenerational cycle of abuse: a prospective nationally representative cohort of children in the United Kingdom. 
  • Segmented hippocampal volume in children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Serotonin transporter gene moderates childhood maltreatment's effects on persistent but not single-episode depression: replications and implications for resolving inconsistent results. 
  • Service usage typologies in a clinical sample of trauma-exposed adolescents: A latent class analysis. 
  • Sex differences in brain maturation in maltreatment-related pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Shaken baby syndrome--a forensic pediatric response. 
  • Social information-processing patterns partially mediate the effect of early physical abuse on later conduct problems. 
  • Some consequences of early harsh discipline: child aggression and a maladaptive social information processing style. 
  • Structural Racism, Poverty, and Sexism Shape the History of and Response to Childhood Maltreatment Among Incarcerated Individuals. 
  • Structural covariance network centrality in maltreated youth with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Suicidal ideation among 8-year-olds who are maltreated and at risk: findings from the LONGSCAN studies. 
  • Suicidality, aggression, and other treatment considerations among pregnant, substance-dependent women with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Superior temporal gyrus volumes in maltreated children and adolescents with PTSD. 
  • Synergistic adversities and behavioral problems in traumatized children and adolescents. 
  • Teen-aged mothers in contemporary Britain. 
  • The Durham Family Initiative: a preventive system of care. 
  • The Origins of Cognitive Deficits in Victimized Children: Implications for Neuroscientists and Clinicians. 
  • The Rights of Children for Optimal Development and Nurturing Care. 
  • The biological effects of childhood trauma. 
  • The blind men and the elephant: Identification of a latent maltreatment construct for youth in foster care. 
  • The caregiving environments provided to children by depressed mothers with or without an antisocial history. 
  • The effects of child maltreatment on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. 
  • The limits of child effects: evidence for genetically mediated child effects on corporal punishment but not on physical maltreatment. 
  • The psychobiology of neglect. 
  • The timing of child physical maltreatment: a cross-domain growth analysis of impact on adolescent externalizing and internalizing problems. 
  • Toward a definition of neglect in young children. 
  • Trauma-Informed Care for Children in the Child Welfare System: An Initial Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Parenting Workshop. 
  • Understanding the behavioral and emotional consequences of child abuse. 
  • Untangling the relative contribution of maltreatment severity and frequency to type of behavioral outcome in foster youth. 
  • Validity of evidence-derived criteria for reactive attachment disorder: indiscriminately social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited types. 
  • Vulnerability to depression: a moderated mediation model of the roles of child maltreatment, peer victimization, and serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region genetic variation among children from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. 
  • What residents know about child abuse. Implications of a survey of knowledge and attitudes. 
  • What we know and what we still need to learn. 
  • What's in a name? A comparison of methods for classifying predominant type of maltreatment. 
  • When more is not better: the role of cumulative risk in child behavior outcomes. 
  • Youth self-report of physical and sexual abuse: a latent class analysis. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Brancu, Mira, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gifford, Elizabeth Joanne, Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Murphy, Robert A., Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Van Voorhees, Elizabeth E., Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Woolley, Donald, Higher Education Analyst I, School of Medicine